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I don't have a strong interest in history.
Larry Niven
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Larry Niven
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: April 30
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Laurence van Cott Niven
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Hopeless causes are the only ones worth fighting for. The fight for the taxpayer is the most hopeless of them all.
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Love was a delicious blend of warm and cold. There was comfort in making love. It solved no problems: but one could run away from problems.
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I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
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The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population in the next generation it's a quarter after that it's a childhood disease.
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